Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. — Doug Larson
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation. — Amy Lowell
Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit. — John C. Maxwell
Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place. — Jacqueline du Pre
There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy. — Indira Gandhi
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it. — Rex Harrison
Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. — Jacques Charles
Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love. — Adela Rogers St. Johns
About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy). — Alexander Calder
There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness. — Nigella Lawson
Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy. — Jackie Gleason
There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it — Robert Doisneau
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6). — William Gurnall
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. — Rene Descartes
Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus. — John Calvin
Short Elation Quotes
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed. — Alexander Pope
There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. — Edward Hopper
You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony. — Joan Jett
I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard. — Paloma Faith
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. — Ausonius
...rapid motion through space elates one. — James Joyce
Never elated while one man's oppress'd;
Never dejected while another's blessed. — Alexander Pope
Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart. — Joseph Addison
Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance! — Osho
Elation Image Quotes
Excellent Day Quotes
Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence. — Nick Saban
Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward. — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Literally all I do every single hour of every day is obsess over how I can make the best videos possible. — MrBeast
Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday! — Pat Riley
You’ve been given another day of life. How will you use it? Will you wait until tomorrow as you’ve done for years or decide today is the day you commit to excellence? — Andrew Tate
Excellence must be pursued, it must be wooed with all of one’s might and every bit of effort that we have each day there’s a new encounter, each week is a new challenge. — Vince Lombardi
You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism. — William Peter Blatty
Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day — Brian Tracy
Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days. — Ted W. Engstrom
You will miss out on some near soul mates. This goes for friendships, too. There will be unforgettable people with whom you have shared an excellent evening or a few days. Now they live in Hong Kong, and you will never see them again. That’s just how life is. — Pamela Druckerman
If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael
Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds. — Nichiren
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity. — Isocrates
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. — Natalie Clifford Barney
God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine. — Bill W.
It’s just been fantastic, from start to finish… I’m just truly elated, just the smells of Earth are so strong, it’s wonderful to be back… to feel the fresh air. — Tim Peake
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. — John Burroughs
What constitutes a state? . . . . . . . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. . . . . . . . And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. — William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome. — Derek Walcott
If I look at blood work of a client, I can tell what kind of probability they will have for success in their career, the probability they will have a successful marriage or successful relationship. I can see how passionate they are, whether or not they experience emotions like elation, passion, exuberance, joy, happiness. — Gary Brecka
Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost. — Ken Dodd
There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: hail to the morning! come down to me, my beautiful unknown. — Jessica Powers
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me. — Michelangelo
Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure. — Thomas Wolfe
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. — Agnes Repplier
In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated. — Robert Frost
There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage. — Neve Campbell
Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last? — Vernon Howard
I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation. — Frank Sinatra
It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential. — Cyril Connolly
Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom! — Robert Burns
Remember blessed children of men that the purpose of the real science should be to increase the happiness and to free the race from every external condition that would not be beneficial for the elation of man to the pristine greatness of his original cosmic destiny. — Count of St. Germain
So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I
have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation. — Herbert Hoover
We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill or elate with words as body experiences. — Humberto Maturana
Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation. — Jonathan Aitken
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality. — Kay Redfield Jamison
I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate there. I would have loved to share the fact that I was the new Doctor, but I couldn't. I was going mad. My dad was rather flabbergasted. When I told him, he laughed. He was excited, elated and very proud. — Matt Smith
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood — Chris Hadfield
Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth. — Norman Mailer
I can't think logically about who I am or where I am going. I have been very ecstatic, horribly depressed, shocked, elated, enlightened, and enervated. — Sylvia Plath
He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse. — Livy
The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug. — Helen Fisher
True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride , impatience and cowardice . — Sathya Sai Baba
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